Adirondack case guy
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The uncles sold their standing second cut to a local dairy farmer. His second cut never came in due to lack of rain and being on high ground with limestone bed rock base. Second cut here just a bit better, because it was harvested earlier, but we are also on limestone bed rock. I believe by the sparsity of the bales that yield was about a ton per Acer of big bales to be wrapped for balage. They mowed and baled about 175A the last 2 days.
This neighbor farmer wanting the second cut was a savior for the uncles. The BTO beef farmer who has bought all their hay and straw for the past 5 years is in financial strafes and could not buy their first cut hay. They had a custom operator come in and make dry, big square bales, which filled the heifer barn and then they wrapped a bunch of the bales for storage and stacked them in the paved barnyard.
Not sure what is going to happen up on the farm. One uncle has to get blood transfusions 3 days a week, at the hospital, and the other older one can hardly crawl up into a tractor anymore.
Loren
This neighbor farmer wanting the second cut was a savior for the uncles. The BTO beef farmer who has bought all their hay and straw for the past 5 years is in financial strafes and could not buy their first cut hay. They had a custom operator come in and make dry, big square bales, which filled the heifer barn and then they wrapped a bunch of the bales for storage and stacked them in the paved barnyard.
Not sure what is going to happen up on the farm. One uncle has to get blood transfusions 3 days a week, at the hospital, and the other older one can hardly crawl up into a tractor anymore.
Loren